Project: Environmental law enforcement: a comparison of practice in the criminal and administrative tracks

project duration

01-APR-07 – 31-MAR-11

abstract

The project (2007-2011) aims at interdisciplinary research (law, economics, law & economics) of the penalization of environmental crimes in the penal and the administrative track. It focusses on a description, analysis and assesment of the use that practice makes of the discretionary realm that is inherent to the application of a lot of penalization instruments. Databases which document the whole penalization trajectory (up to compulsory executions issues included) will be created to fuel the research. The project will make use of methods of legal science, economics, and Law & economics.